FOR DECADES, Martin Teicher, M.D., Ph.D., has investigated the impact of trauma on the developing brain. He is currently an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he ...

Children who experience traumatic events may show subtle but measurable differences in how their brains process attention and control impulses, according to a new study published in Neuropsychologia.

Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

Universitat de Barcelona provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. Universitat de Barcelona provides funding as a member of The Conversation CATALAN. Universitat de Barcelona ...

There’s a reason April Beaton has a 6-foot white beanbag in the living room and not a coffee table; a reason her 5-year-old son’s bedroom is kept bare. There’s a reason she keeps a stack of printouts ...

Border Patrol and ICE agents have demonstrated a troubling inability to provide developmentally appropriate and humane care ...

In December of 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon (who had sustained severe incapacitating brain injuries in August 1991) began a new, complex multi-movement therapy and rehabilitation ...

Transformative Growth Counseling offers evidence-informed PTSD and trauma services, supporting healing, resilience, and emotional well-being for clients NAPERVILLE, IL, UNITED STATES, December 30, ...

An adoptive mom is going viral for revealing how children adopted at birth can still experience trauma. Lora Rose Buth, who works as an occupational therapist based in Kentucky, explained in a reel on ...